Last Minute Holiday Shopping Ideas for 2008 Shopping Slackers

There is only an number of hours until Christmas day is here (or your festive winter holiday of choice). I am almost totally snowed in but luckily I have all my holiday shopping done and in the mail.

However if you still have some gifts to get, here are my suggestions for last-minute gift ideas:

1. If you are going to get a gift card for them go to Goodwill and get an Atari or NES games for a buck that you can include as a gag gift, then tape the gift card to the cartridge and wrap it.

2. Netflix, I love my Netflix so much that I will never get cable TV as long as those red envelopes keep on coming. It is really awesome to have a constant supply of movies that I can watch on my own. The instant watch streaming movies on on Mac/PC and Xbox 360 is pretty slick.

3. Get two copies of an Xbox Live-compatible backwards-compatible original Xbox game, one for you and one for them.

4. CD notebooks for their games/cds.

5. Get a blank Xbox 360 face place and decorate it to match their liking. Try using stickers or stick on lettering.

7. use free applications like OpenOffice.org or Inkscape to make some personal gift certificates for household tasks such as :
– Digitize your CDs or DVDs
– Clean hard drive
– Back up your PC
– Do Laundry
– Do Dishes
– Home cooked meal from scratch
– Organize Cables behind entertainment systems
– Change oil and tune up car
– Full Day of cleaning

Have a happy holiday! (Yes that right I said Happy Holidays instead of just “Merry Christmas”! Don’t forget New Years, Boxing Day and other days of faith)